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TIL People with Cystic Fibrosis are extremely dangerous to eachother

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QNGQM TIL, Australia was not a paradise for women and children pre-colonialism. Absolutely heartbreaking article.
6B97 TIL that during the production of the video-game Deus Ex (released in 2000), the artist forgot to add the twin towers to the New York skyline. The in-game explanation was that it was the result of a terrorist attack.
eeND TIL a cluster of graves discovered in rural Connecticut in 1990, initially feared to be the work of a known serial killer, was merely the result of a vampire scare a century earlier.
mxeQP TIL about The Radium Craze. At the beginning of 20th century, radium was a miracle element, it was used in products from toothpaste to soap, hair and face creams, in food such as butter and milk. Doctors recommended it for the treatment of everything from arthritis to impotence to senility.
YppwB TIL when presented with nutrients arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the layout of the Japanese rail system